"overcome ignorance" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to get past or conquer a lack of knowledge or understanding. Example: Education is the key to overcoming ignorance in society and promoting tolerance and acceptance.
We believe that science will overcome ignorance, and that training and technology will overcome ineptitude.
His conquests were to overcome ignorance, not just to overcome his enemy on the field.Napoleon was flawed, like us all.
We've relied on science to overcome ignorance, and the course of that work has itself been fascinating.
She says: "I can now identify in a small way with their rejection and I'll feel honoured to share their experiences.'' In the meantime she hopes scientific facts will overcome ignorance and fear, both here and overseas.
The first report card on the United Nation's two-year-old commitment to defeat AIDS gives the world's countries generally low marks in their efforts to overcome ignorance about the disease and provide access to prevention and treatment measures, United Nations officials said here today.
Education can "open minds" and overcome ignorance, she says.
Synthetic biologists will have to overcome this ignorance.
"We have to overcome an ignorance as to what works," Professor Wilson said.
I hope this month to overcome my ignorance for better or worse – and that you will join me.
He seems driven by a compulsion to overcome the ignorance of his countrymen, which he says he shared.
We hypothesized that immunizing mice with xenogeneic DNA coding for the human melanosomal membrane glycoprotein gp100 would overcome immune ignorance or tolerance and result in tumor immunity.
